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100
What team sport was first televised on February 28, 1940?
basketball
100
What team won the 46th, 47th, 48th, and 50th World Series?
New York Yankees
100
What heavyweight started his pro career as Kid Blackie?
Jack Dempsey
100
What female tennis star retired after breaking her leg in a 1954 riding accident?
Maureen Connolly
100
What feat did Cincinnati pitcher Johnny Vander Meer accomplish in two consecutive games in 1938?
pitched no-hitters
200
What team snapped the Yankees' string of five straight pennants in 1954?
Cleveland Indians
200
Who managed baseball's Brooklyn Dodgers from 1932 to 1937 and Boston Braves from 1938 to 1943?
Casey Stengel
200
What year of the '50s saw Sugar Ray Robinson regain his middleweight title for the first of four times?
1951
200
What infield position did Jackie Robinson play during his first season in the majors?
first base
200
What diminutive player prompted Casey Stengel to say in 1955: "Take him out and we fall apart"?
Yogi Berra
300
What 67-year-old black heavyweight pioneer fought 66-year-old Joe Jeannette in a 1945 exhibition bout?
Jack Johnson
300
What 1942 movie has a cameo by Babe Ruth?
The Pride of the Yankees
300
What baseball manager told Bob Cerv: "Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City"?
Casey Stengel
300
What year's Summer Olympics introduced automatic timing and photo finish cameras?
1932's
300
What perennial Yankees rival team did Dom DiMaggio play for?
Boston Red Sox
400
What swimmer got his start in Hollywood from being noticed in a "BVD" underwear ad?
Johnny Weissmuller
400
How many punches did Eddie Maddock throw in his first-round knockout of Willie Siegel?
one
400
What '30s National League club made one writer observe: "Overconfidence may cost this team seventh place"?
Brooklyn Dodgers
400
What torrid team won 43 of its last 52 games to capture the 1942 National League pennant?
St. Louis Cardinals
400
What did a '40s study show to be the peak age for baseball players apart from pitchers?
27
500
What British-born jockey rode to victory in the Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes and Preakness in 1943?
Johnny Longden
500
What New York City ballpark saw the term "hot dog" coined?
The Polo Grounds
500
What Red Soxer struck out and threw his bat, hitting a woman's head in 1958?
Ted Williams
500
What athletic feat did Lee Chin Yong perform continuously 170 times from a dead hang position in 1925?
chin-ups
500
What first-year owner rewarded Brooklyn with a pennant in 1952?
Walter O'Malley
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